some thoughts on food

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3 amazing couples have made their way to the gallery, check em out!:

the streak began last friday. with our fridge recently replenished with wholesome goodness- it started. the eating out. we hit six restaurants in three days before we called it quits. (two urban licks, sun in my belly and fellini’s among others, so good!).

on sunday night, we were really struck to find ourselves feeling sick and lethargic- but people eat out all the time, right? right! what makes our experience different? i’d love to launch into explaining our organic, fair trade, grass fed, sustainable lifestyle but that would be a stretch. we don’t really budget for that so you will, in fact, find bleached flour, white sugar and a few instant lunches lurking in our pantry. so it isn’t that. maybe we usually eat slightly more balanced meals at home and practice some sort of portion control? i don’t really know.

what i do know is that after seeing so clearly the effects of typical restaurant food we were motivated to talk about how much healthier we could be at home. we do tend to eat fresh but maybe we should live that strictly organic, fair trade, grass fed, sustainable lifestyle i mentioned previously. if three days of restaurant food can change us for the worse, maybe three days of eating pure whole foods could dramatically change us for the better? maybe my logic is flawed but i’m tempted to try it. i should really do some research…

on a different note, be sure to check back tomorrow for some changes we’re going to be making!

jean & bj are married!

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we first met jean only two weeks before her wedding! she had booked us through the mail and we’d corresponded via email so when it came time to meet her face to face we were ready…we thought.

we met her for a cappuccino and she began telling us her story. remember how i said we were ready? not true. the first thing she filled us in on was that she and bj had recently been married. jean laughed at our failure to hide our surprise and explained that bj was canadian and once they moved to atlanta it had been in their best interest to go ahead and tie the knot- we laughed for a while about how much pressure that took off their upcoming wedding! at the end of our meeting, jean left us with a quick warning about how crazy awesome their celebration was going to be. and oh, it was. here are a few of our faves:

the sun was out in full force and it was doing beautiful things with the decor! even the shadows were worth a few images:

old homes with staircases like this always make for interesting shots. i love how full this image is:

jean and her father arrived to the ceremony in a carriage and it was a big hit. the driver was even kind enough to stay after the ceremony and take the little kids for a trip around the block- what a great idea!

the place cards had little bells for the guests to ring and encourage the newlyweds to kiss- no broken glasses at this wedding!

little kids love matt, i think he nailed this next shot:

such a sweet moment during their first dance…

this is my favorite picture of jean; she just looks super stunning here:

jean & bj, it was awesome to spend saturday getting to know you and your families; thank you so much for choosing us to capture it all! you should probably know that matt said ‘eh’ after everything he said for days, haha! no doubt we’ll run into you guys around atlanta- we look forward to it!